My time has come.
After years of having other peoples children dressed in their finest while celebrating Australian Book Week flooding my newsfeed, Master E, my own little human will be posing in his own fabulously creative costume. His costume lovingly created by his mother, me! Ha ha! I feel like I’m in way over my head here. We are a “book family”, we read many books together and some of these books have come from movies or television shows or vice versa. So when I asked my little guy what he would like to dress up as for Book Week he shouted back, BOXTROLL!
Awesome! Shouldn’t be too hard I thought to myself. He can go as Eggs, wear his customised cardboard box and I’ll find some goggles with a hat. A few bandages around his arms and feet to finish the look. Easy.
“Not Eggs, Mummy. I want to be Fish!”
Oh.
He wants to dress up as a Boxtroll. Not the boy who grew up with the Boxtroll’s but an actual Troll. Great!
Papier Mâché Madness
Plenty of Google searches later, I found some other parents who have Boxtroll loving children like mine and some good ideas for making a mask/head that would pass for our favourite Boxtroll, Fish. Papier Mâché was going to be the best way to get this costume to come to life and there are so many tutorials and instructions on how to do it I thought I had it in the bag. Seems like the 25+ years since I last attempted this form of craftiness dulled my memories of the mess. Far out it is a tedious process! Wet soggy newspaper and gooey floury glue aside, you need to have a Master’s in patience waiting for the bloody thing to dry! Thank god we’ve had some sunshine today to help the process a long but at this rate it’s going to take me weeks to get this thing done. Good job I started early in the term!
Progress Shots
So while I wait for my first layers of goo to dry I have fashioned some facial features out of cardboard and written this small entry on my blog. I’ll post some pictures of my progress so far and keep you all updated on my Boxtroll masterpiece.
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